PAN Europe launches EU tour on EDCsPAN Europe together with its members and allies including HEAL has launched a tour in Europe to raise awareness on EDCs and call on member states to take action and protect health. In many EU capitals and European cities, events will be organised to inform the European countries about the need for a revised proposal to protect health and the environment. Read more...

EDCs on October Environment Council agendaEnvironment Ministers from Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden raised the issue of the EU EDCs criteria at the recent EU Environment Council and argued that the criteria is too important to be decided in the so-called ‘comitology’ procedure. Read more...

Lifting Europe’s Dark Cloud: How cutting coal saves livesEffective emissions limits could save thousands of lives every year, yet more than half of coal power stations in Europe are operating with ’permission to pollute’ above limits set in EU law. These are the finding in a new report by HEAL, EEB, WWF, CAN Europe and Sandbag. Read more…

HEAL on the road to COP22As the world is still rejoicing over the strong COP21 Paris climate agreement, HEAL and its members are already engaging with the health community to keep up the strong call for health in climate negotiations at COP22 in Marrakesh. Read more…

Kraków wins case over tougher air pollution lawThe Regional Administrative Court in Poland has dismissed a complaint by some residents in Kraków on the so-called anti-smog resolution. The resolution, which comes into force on 1 September 2019, will prohibit burning fossil fuels, such as coal and wood in household stoves and boilers in order to improve air quality in the city. Read more…

HEAL joins partnership on air qualityOn 10 October, HEAL participated in an official meeting of the Partnership on Air Quality, an action initiated by the Dutch Ministry of Environment, with the main objective to improve air quality in cities and to bring the ‘healthy city’ higher on the EU agenda as part of the Urban Agenda. Read more…

It is now time to phase out dental amalgam use in the EUHEAL welcomes a vote by the European Parliament Environment Committee for overwhelmingly requesting the phase out of dental amalgam use by 31 December 2022, as well as the swifter prohibition of amalgam use ‘for the treatment of pregnant or breastfeeding women or individuals who undergo treatment on their deciduous teeth’, one year after the date of entry into force of the Regulation. Read more...

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